Illicit Trade/Smuggling Resources on the Internet

Framework Convention Alliance Report: How big was the global illicit tobacco trade problem in 2006?

World Health Organization Intergovernmental Negotiating Body on a Protocol on Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products

Action on Smoking and Health: Tobacco: About Smuggling

Action on Smoking and Health: Tobacco Smuggling Factsheet

Cancer Research U.K.: Briefing on Tobacco Smuggling

Non-Smokers' Rights Association (Canada) Tobacco Smuggling section

Tobacco Institute of South Africa


Media Coverage

BBC World Service documentary: How Crime Took on the World (Part Two)
In the second programme of this series which charts the explosion of international organised crime, Misha Glenny returns to his old stamping ground the Balkans, to follow the trail of smuggled cigarettes.


Reports, Articles & Studies

Joosens, L, et al. Issues in the smuggling of tobacco products. Tobacco Control in Developing Countries (2000)

Joossens, L. Report on Smuggling Control in Spain (WHO)

Mauritius Revenue Authority: Launching of Campaign to Combat Illicit Trade of Tobacco Products

Merriman, D, Yurekli, A, Chaloupka, FJ. Issues in the smuggling of tobacco products. Tobacco Control in Developing Countries (2000)

The cigarette “transit” road to the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq: Illicit tobacco trade in the Middle East

United Nations International Conference on Illicit Tobacco: Trade Conference Chairpersons Final Report

WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean: Illicit Tobacco Trade Contributes to Global Disease Burden (Aug. 2002)


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